Shaped by the duplicity and the draconian demands of the nation’s COVID response during their high school years, and the proliferation of podcasts addressing family values, fiscal responsibility, and individual liberty, a new Yale Youth Study of 4,100 self-described registered…
As Gen Zers like myself finish our education and enter the workforce, many of us initially face the fear of the next chapter in our lives: adulthood. The “fear of adulting” was the main topic of conversation amongst my classmates…
What do you get when you take a 40 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate, mix it with a 25 percent absentee-father rate, and sprinkle some social media on top? You get feral kids. Raised by their devices and peers, and educated not…
For decades, American politicians have promised to revive manufacturing, especially factory jobs. This is viewed as a way to rebuild the middle class and restore national pride. Donald Trump has made it a central promise of his campaigns, repeatedly vowing…
The most recent “Voices of Gen Z” study, a joint project of Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation, had both encouraging and concerning news. The encouraging news was this: Members of Gen Z (those born from 1997 to 2012)…
The marriage license department on the 23rd floor of the Franklin County probate office is a rather sleepy place. It’s got a fantastic bird’s eye view of downtown Columbus, a couple of computers, a massive stack of microfilm records dating…
This election cycle has been a bit of an odd one. There are plenty of important policy issues that could define it — the border, taxation, inflation, or foreign aid, for example — but none of them (despite how much Americans…
There are a million reasons to vote for a candidate, but my generation needs a better approach. Even after the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign still depends on online chatter to boost her appeal. Many social media users,…
Politics is not important. Life is important. Politics is just a supposedly necessary evil. It is not an end. It is just something that is in the way and that we stumble upon. But it pervades everything. The ideological polarization…
